Category Archives: Technicalities

Photo woes

Posted on 27 March 2008 by Åsmund

I have a lot of pictures on file somewhere. In roughly 50% of the cases, the picture is not on a disk that is stashed somewhere inaccessible and anyway likely to have failed. A very few of them are online … Continue reading →

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Enden er nær!

Posted on 31 December 2007 by Åsmund

Eg var på Elkjøp på Heiane i dag. Dei førte mobiltelefondeodorant.

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The Joy of Mac

Posted on 27 April 2007 by Åsmund

If cut’n’paste and/or drag-and-drop just stops working on your Mac, delete ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist and relogin.

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Windows on Mac

Posted on 1 February 2007 by Åsmund

Installing Windows on Mac turned out to be a perfectly doable thing. There were three hurdles: Diskutil reported minor errors on the system disk. Boot from install CD, run Diskutil from pull-down menu. Partitioning failed due to unmovable files. Shrinking … Continue reading →

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MySQL

Posted on 16 March 2006 by Åsmund

I need to use MySQL in one of the projects at work. Fair enough, databases are useful little thingies. Big thingies. Frustrations mount quickly, though. Example. Dataset in text file contains N unique rows which I may want to update … Continue reading →

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New server.

Posted on 6 March 2006 by Åsmund

The weblog had to move to another server, for technical reasons. Not for legal reasons. That was right out, I deny that completely. But anyway, you didn’t notice, of course, because the move went without a hitch. No hitches at … Continue reading →

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Det virkar!

Posted on 24 January 2006 by Åsmund

Sånn, no ser det ut til at me er i bizniz. Vel, ikkje heilt, for gamle lenkjer og bilete og slikt er jo ikkje fiksa. Kjem eg til å gidda? Betviles. Men no bur denne fjasevevloggen her. Takk for slik … Continue reading →

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DNS-faen.

Posted on 23 January 2006 by Åsmund

Har kjøpt eit domene. Å få det til å peika hit har vore mas, og eg veit framleis ikkje om det framleis er feil eller om det berre er cache som står i vegen (men Håvard seier at det er … Continue reading →

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New action here.

Posted on 20 January 2006 by Åsmund

So we moved on. That is, just testing now. But my university account’s horizon is looming, and so is the disk quota. So we might as well set up elsewhere. So we went here. Will endeavour to move my old … Continue reading →

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Spambugs, one down.

Posted on 6 July 2005 by Åsmund

After discovering that «.» had made the spamword list (no, it wasn’t supposed to be there) and correcting that minor mishap, maybe now will comments work after a fashion.

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Rules of installation, simple

Posted on 12 January 2005 by Åsmund

I hereby decree the following: In any installation manual for a piece of software, or hardware driver, or a component or supplement thereof, if said manual contains more information than thus: Start installation program. Click OK. use of any form … Continue reading →

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